Mid-year academic and social development
January 2012
The Boston Public Schools distribute official report cards for kindergarten students in March. As your child’s teacher, I want to share information with you about your child’s academic and social progress before then.
The skills assessed in this informal report represent general expectations that help give us an overall picture of how your child is progressing. Because all children develop at different rates, we do not expect every child to have mastered every skill at this time.
I am available to meet with you if you have any questions or would like to talk about your child's progress. Please see the attached blue paper for information on setting up an appointment.
Even if you do not wish to schedule a meeting, please sign the attached blue
paper and return it to school with your child in the envelope provided!
As always, it’s my pleasure to be working with your child. I have high hopes for a wonderful second half of this kindergarten year.
Kindergarten Teacher

Below you can see the progress your child has made from October to January in writing their own name.
October,
Expectation: The student can write their first name without assistance.
Assessment:  Student includes all letters
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First letter is capitalized
All other letters are lower case
 No letters are reversed
Next Steps:
January,
I gave your child a collection of plastic bears and asked them to count the bears aloud.
Students will be able to count 20 objects. Expectation:
Assessment:
Next steps:
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Students counts in the correct order
 Student touches and moves the bear to a new group as they count
 Student counts each bear only once

I showed your child a series of flashcards, in random order, with the numbers 1  10 written on them. Every number that your child identified correctly has a checkmark next to it.
7
8
9
5
6
1
2
3
4
Expectation: Student identifies the numbers 1 - 10 on flashcards.
Next steps:
10
I asked your child to identify all of the letters below in both September and January.
The letters they identified correctly in January have a checkmark next to them.
A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W X
Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a g
Expectation: Student identifies all upper and lowercase letters.
Assessment: Score in September: /54
Next steps:
Score in January: /54

Your child’s social development is just as important as their intellectual development.
Our goal is to promote habits of kindness, curiosity, respect, and emotional resilience among the kindergarten students.
Below you will find a list of some of those social behaviors. Beside each one is a symbol that describes your child’s current stage of development in practicing that behavior in the classroom.
Social Habits
Plays well with others
Shows self-confidence
Acts with kindness towards classmates
Expresses emotions with control
Respects rights and property of others
Respects adult authority
Understands when it’s ok to talk and when it’s necessary to be quiet
Work Habits
Shows consistent effort
Works well with other students
Works independently
Completes work
Follows instructions
+ Consistently
Comments:
 Sometimes - Not quite yet